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System and method for using a mobile device as an input device for surveys at a live event

  • US 10,178,710 B2
  • Filed: 05/22/2017
  • Issued: 01/08/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for interacting with audience members in an event, which is defined as being at a physical venue location and occurring at a particular predetermined time, wherein the event has a finite number of participating attendees and an associated finite number of unique potential attendee identifiers (UPAIs) allocated to any particular event, which UPAIs can be replicated for other events at other times in the same physical venue location or at events in other venue locations, selected from attendees of the event, each of the participating attendees having available thereto one of the UPAIs for the associated event, comprising the steps of:

  • creating, for each participating attendee, when the attendee is in physical proximity to the venue location associated with the event and proximate in time to the occurrence of the particular predetermined time of the event and is prompted via an external prompting source proximate in time and location to the event to enter a UPAI into a mobile wireless device (MWD), a unique ID (UID) on the MWD by the steps of;

    inputting to the MWD one of the UPAIs; and

    combining the received UPAI with a UID time stamp at the time of input of the UPAI in the MWD to provide the UID comprised of a UPAI portion and a UID time stamp portion so as to distinguish two different UIDs having a duplicate UPAI portion, resulting in a verified UID;

    receiving with a server on a first wireless channel communications from the MWD of each participating attendee and having associated therewith one of the verified UIDs;

    registering the verified UID of each participating attendee at the physical venue location of the event to define registered attendees;

    associating a respective social network ID with each respective UID;

    generating at the server a visual query;

    displaying on a physical display at the event the visual query, wherein the physical display is visible by at least a plurality of finite number of participating attendees and wherein the visual query relates to a plurality visual messages;

    displaying response indicators on the MWD of a plurality of the registered attendees;

    inputting, by a plurality of the respective registered attendees on which the response indicators were displayed, a response via selection of one of the MWD response indicators on the respective MWD associated with the respective registered attendee;

    receiving at the server from each of the responding ones of the registered attendees the selected responses to the query over the first wireless channel;

    storing in a database on the server the received responses in association with the displayed query;

    associating the respective received responses with the respective verified UIDs;

    creating a query ID (QID) associated with the displayed query;

    creating respective response time stamp indicating the respective times at which the respective responses were received by the server;

    creating a data record for the each verified UID, each verified UID data record including;

    the respective verified UID,the associated social network ID,the QID,the respective received response, andthe respective response time stamp;

    creating a data record for the QID, the QID data record including;

    the QID;

    each of the respective received responses,each respective verified UID, andeach respective response time stamp;

    performing statistical analysis on the QID data record;

    selecting, based on the statistical analysis of the QID data record, one of the visual messages from the plurality of visual messages; and

    displaying on the physical display at the event the selected visual message;

    wherein the statistical analysis relates to the social network ID associated with each respective verified UID.

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